1. Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
APUSH UNIT SIX
Chapter 16: The Conquest
of the Far West

4. Plain Indians

6. The importance of Buffalo

7. Hispanic New Mexico

8. Hispanic California and Texas

9. Chinese Migration

11. Chinese Exclusion Act

12. Homestead Act

14. The 100th Meridan – “Rain follows the plow”

15. The Lure of the West Mining… Comstock Lode..
Placer mining…
Sluice mining…
Comstock Lode..
Attracted population and wealth…
Women found opportunities…

17. Cowboys – The Long Drive

18. Popular terminals…
4 million + driven to market
End of the Cowboy era: Barbed Wired (Joseph Glidden 1874)

19. The Oklahoma Land Rush (Sept 16, 1893)

20. Frederick Jackson Turner
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
“Frontier Thesis”
The success of America is tied to its continual westward expansion…

21. The 3 D’s Disease… Decline of the Buffalo…
Dishonest Government Officials/Broken Treaties…

24. Major Conflicts of the Indian Wars
Chivington’s Massacre (Sand Creek)…
Fetterman’s Massacre…

25. Indian Wars, 1860–1890
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26. Geronimo
Apache Wars

27. Little Bighorn

28. Chief Joseph and the Nez Pierce

29. Ghost Dance

30. Wounded Knee

31. Dawes Severalty Act (1877) Dissolved tribal ownership of land…
Individual family ownership…
Forced assimilation…
Indians could…
Effects…

32. Carlisle Indian School

33. American Agriculture in 1900
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34. The Grange Development of agriculture The Grange Cash crops…
Mechanization…
Debts..
At the mercy of
Corporations
Government
The Grange
1867 – Oliver Kelley